, 1887-06-09
KINGS AND QUEENS.
GOSSIP ABOUT QUEEN KAPlolANl
AND OTHER ROYAL MoNARCHS.

A Look at Queen Victoria and Her In
come-Other Kings and Queens on the
Half sheii-How Royalty Impressed Our
Correspondent.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, June 1.
Queen Kapiolani has not left very heavy
impression upon Washington, and society Is
till laughing over the ridiculous incidents OF
her visit. 1t is hard indeed for an American
to perceive the divinity that doth hedge
king or queen, and l find that the expert
ence OF most travellers corresponds with my
own. have seen within the past five years
half dozen reigning monarchs and a
bakers dozen Of princes and princesses, and l
must confess that the royal blood se' IS to
flow through very common clay. Last ia'l l
saw Queen Victoria at Edinburgh and heard
the faint applause of the 10000 people who
stood along the sidewalks as she drove by on
her way to the exposition. L looked for
dignity grace and features which should
shine with intellectual and queenly strength.
| saw stout old woman, with rosy
face, unnteresting features and dark gray
hair If she had great intellectual strength
it did not show forth in her face, and you
may see better faces at any reception In
America or in half days shopping. Victoria
sat with her daughters in a double seated
carriage hauled by four horses, and
half dozen lords and dukes rode In
front of and behind her. She Strengthened
herself up, and both she and her daughters
bowed their heads like so many Chinese dolls
in response to the cheers of the crowd. The
Princess Beatrice sat beside her, and her hus-
band a blonde mustached German prince,
was i'm the same carriage. As looked at her
I thought OF the little influence she really had
in the English government and how much the
English government paid for her She has
palaces all over the kingdom, and in Scotland
one Of her estates contains $4,000 acres. Her
family costs the English government more
than 4,0OO, 600 year, and her private purse,
which is voted to her by parliament amounts
to $500, 900 annually. She alone receives
nearly S2,OO0,O0O annually, and she has at the
same time Immense private fortunes which
bring her In hundreds OF thousands more.
The English people are beginning TO feel that
they pay good deal for their crown, and
while the queen drove along these Edinburgh
streets I heard a number Of remarks, in
which the words taxes and republic were used
IN close come ction.
It was at Coblcnce on the Rhine that saw
King William, of Prussia. He had been
spending several weeks at the water cure at
! Ems, where he goes every year, and he was
now about to make visit here before he re-
turned to Berlin. The city was decorated
with flags and bunting in his honor, and his
palace, for he, like Queen Victoria, has palaces
scattered all over his realm, had been put in
order for his coming 1t had a special
railroad station inside its walls, and il was
here that l stood in the dripping rain one
Sunday afternoon among n crowd Of about
1000 people who wanted to see the king. We
were kept in order by pompous officials
dressed in gorgeous uniforms They delighted
in showing their authority, and pushed us
here and there while we waited for the train
After half hours standing we heard tho
whistle Of q locomotive, and n moment later
the train came in. Before the window of one
OF its first class carriages stood a olainy
dressed, well preserved, gray haired man,
with as kind face as have ever seen. He
wore cap like a common soldier, and his
llress was devoid of gold lace and brass but.
IONS. As the crowd saw him they set up a
,heer, and the old man bowed with a smile
This was Kaiser Wilhelm, the man who de-
teated Louis Napoleon, founded the great
German empire, and still holds his position as
one Of the leading, IL not the greatest, mon
arch Of the world. No nobler man sits upon
\ throne at the present time, and Germany
has reason to love Kaiser Wilhelm. A sim.
pie, plain old man, he has done wonders for
Germany, and Prussia under his adminstra-
ton has made great strides in both civiliza-
ton and wealth. King Wilhelm does not
need fine clothes to make him great, and he
is generally clad as / saw him there In
simple soldiers clothes. He is the Oldest sol
der in the German army of to-day, and am
told he is as proud OF this fact as OF his i'm
perial power. visited his favorite palace at
Potsdam and went through Babelsburg. This
palace is furnished like an American home
and the article which the king prizes above
the others is n plain white chair which stands
| In his bedroom. 1t was made by his son, the
crown prince, and was his master piece in
learning the trade of cabinet making The
Germans as a rule are fond of their children,
and Kaiser Wilhelm Is no exception. He
likes other children as well as his own, and
many anecdotes are told In illustration of
this. 80
There is flower which grows among the
wheat in Germany known as the corn flower,
or Kaiser Blumen. II grows wild and 1t has
the petals OF our dandelion, but its color is q
bright navy blue Kaiser Blumen means in
English ''emperors flower" and it is from
Kaiser Wilhelm that the name comes. Two
little peasant children had heard that the
king loved this flower, and they had been told
OF his kindness to little ones One day they
gathered a large bouquet of these flowers and
went all alone, several miles, into Berlin in
tending to present them to the king. After
much trouble they reached the door of the
palace, where the guard, dressed in his gor-
seous uniform, stood. They managed in great
trembling to tell their story, and thought at
first this splendid man was the king. He
heard them through and was about sending
them home when plain, kind old man came
out and asked them what they wanted. The
fierce guard stood hack mt his approach Thou
told their story again, and he, taking their
flowers, asked them In and told them TO sit
down and he would present the flowers to the
king. He then went away. In a moment q
gorgeous guard appeared and told the children
the king wanted to see them. He led them
INTO another room royalty furnished, and
here they saw this same kind old man hold.
'ng their flowers in his hand. 1t was the
ling. He gave them each present, talked